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Hamilton: 'Hats off to the team for Hungary strategy call'

Hungarian Grand Prix race winner Lewis Hamilton gave his Mercedes team full credit for their inspired strategy call that helped him to victory at the Hungaroring. He had been unable to force his way past long time race leader Max Verstappen on track, when the team called him in for an unexpected second pit stop at the end of lap 48. That put Hamilton over 20s behind Verstappen but crucially on a much faster set of new medium tyres, and he spent the remaining laps of the race hunting down his rival. He finally blasted past him with five laps to spare. "James, sorry I doubted your strategy," Hamilton said over the team radio on his cool down lap, speaking with race engineer Peter...
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